Believe it or not, during my service I met the cousin of Governor Pritzker. He was one of the idiot cousins who they didn't trust to run the Hyatt Empire, so they paid him off to go do what he liked, and he joined the Army.
And yes, he did pass airborne school. He eventually retired as a Lt. Col. from the Illinois National Guard.
He also (And I am not making this up) decided later he was transsexual and calls herself "Jennifer" today.
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On a serious note, however, this is kind of the problem with why this war dragged on for as long as it did.
Because we have a volunteer military, if your kid didn't sign up, it didn't touch you.
Oh, we had a big surge in enlistments after 9/11. Then it tapered off. Then we started taking the same guard units and rotating them into Afghanistan and Iraq, imposing stop-loss to keep guys in after their enlistments expired.
Then we started lowering enlistment standards, and wonder how we got such prize characters like Chelsea Manning and Bowe Bergdahl, people who never should have been enlisted or should have washed out of boot camp.